savagely stabbed to death in his own home. now his wife kay was being questioned by detective kendall at the police station in plantation, florida. kay, maybe it s easier to start with what happened from the beginning, last night. i was in my craft room, which is in the front of the house. and the tv was on. i heard a noise like something fall down. i thought it was my husband. going to bed. she told police her husband had been watching tv in the family room. their five-year-old son asleep in the master bedroom. then suddenly, kay looked up. i saw him and the gun was like, right here. and he was right there. and i couldn t believe i was like i could not believe that this was happening to me.
marriage, christina, first thought it might have something to do with the renovations her mom and joe were having done at the home. i honestly thought maybe it was the contractors, because they had a lot of people coming in and out of their house doing work. i never thought it was somebody who they knew. like some random thing in which people came in to rob the house and everything went wrong? yeah, that was my first thought. that was my first guess. who didn t like joe? the only person that i knew that didn t like him was his ex wife and her family. it was a nasty divorce. it was just a bitter feelings there. police looked in at joe s previous marriage, but determined it had nothing to do with the crime. investigators did have one narrow thread to pull. something kay had mentioned to them. the only thing she was able to tell me was a brief description of what the suspects who first entered the house looked like. kay had not recognized that man at the time. only later d
life. patrick is now awake, he is sitting on the bed. so joe says to him patrick, do it for daddy, please do it for daddy. lay down, pretend you are asleep. do it for daddy? do it for daddy. and he lays there, pretends to be asleep. kay says the man with the gun forced joe to go to the other side of the house. in his final moments with his attackers, kay says that family was first in joe s mind. he starts pleading please, i have kids. please. their home was on fire. the attackers had fled, now she had to get patrick and herself out of the house, but her ankles were still tied, she could barely move. desperate to find something sharp to free her feet, kay hobbled to a nearby bathroom. i took everything out of the drawers, created a huge mess, i could not find the scissors so i called patrick, and i said to patrick, you have to be a big boy, you have to help mommy.
believable? at that point, yes. that is the only thing i had to go on at that point. kay told the detective that a man had entered their home, sometime after 11 pm. and began a reign of terror, that started with tying joe and kay s hands and feet with zip ties, and ended with the murder of their husband, and the house on fire. kay s story suggested a robbery gone bad. to figure out what happened, detective kimble work from the outside again. what did you see is we got here, at the front of the house? the screen to the window right over here was leaning up against the house. there was a vertical slice down the middle of the screen, and this window was wide open. that is how kay told you the guy first came into the house? that was the entry area where the suspect came in through, correct. i walk down this hallway over here. on the ground, there was a pair of red handled scissors. one of these long, plastic flex cuffs was on the ground, a zip
personal? yes, up close, no way to do that from a distance. everything about that says this was not a robbery, this was someone who wanted to kill joe morrissey in particular. in addition to that, joe morrissey s wedding band was still on, he still had his watch on. if this was a robbery, they would have been taken out of the house. what s more, his wife kay was still alive, not stabbed, not even once. they do a brutal, vicious murder to joe morrissey. why leave her alive? why leave a witness alive? why indeed? in murders like this, the spouse is often the first suspect, sometimes the only suspect. all of that became clear that night, to kay s daughter, christina. i remember at the police station, she asked me to stay and watch the house. i remember sitting there, they would come up and ask me questions. different detectives, police officers. you know, they asked me, did